Genomic approach to identifying the putative target of and mechanisms of resistance to mefloquine in mycobacteria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3707-3714

  Danelishvili, Lia ^a,b   Wu, Martin ^a,b   Young, Lowell S ^b   Bermudez, Luiz E ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEFLOQUINE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESISTANCE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIMALARIALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEFLOQUINE; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 24144473033     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.9.3707-3714.2005     Document Type: Article

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